I painted my "The Double Heater Core" with $3 spray paint

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Covered with masking tape, sprayed, dried, sprayed and dried again. One more layer would have been better though.

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Painted:

 

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Like I said, the bottom part could have used an extra layer of paint. Oh well, at least it looks a lot better than the original pic with blotches of brass and silver

 

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thats pretty hot, might have to do it to mine...

 

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Thanks, I didn't expect it to get so shiny!

Make sure you put at least 3 layers tho, and put that masking tape on carefully.

 

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extremely nice pal!

 

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Ya, but Ford Blue??????

 

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Nice paintjob

 

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how exactly did you put those barbs on? I am thinking about doing a similart thing to my res but all of the barbs I have currenly are threaded.

 

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Ford blue? Nah! I just picked up the cheapest can of spray paint that I laid my eyes on in Home Depot.


Posidon42: www.dangerden.com sells them with the barbs already soldered on. Your choice of 1/2" or 3/8".

I jsut carefully wrapped masking tape around them to prevent paint from getting on.

 

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yeah, but that won't help me. You see I want to remove the tubing all together and put the barbs in differet locations. Believe me when you see it you will be "why didn't I think of that".

 

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So, you're not gonna use any tubing?

 

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yes yes, I am going to use tubing. I am going to mount the hose barbs directly to the rad but not using the stock tubing locations. That is all I meant.

BTY that rad looks pretty neat.

 

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man thats nice is that regular spray paint?

 

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Busty St. Clair said:

man thats nice is that regular spray paint?

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No, it's not regular spray paint, it's the cheapest stuff on the shelf! I'll see if I can make a pic of the spray paint can for you tomorrow

 

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That looks sweet, almost looks plastic coated

 

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yeah that is really nice man espessially since u took the cheapest stuff off the shelf

 

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I used red duplicolor metalcast on my fedco 2-199:

 

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Sorry for thread jack but, Giblet where did you put your hard-drives? It seems you have no room after you put in your Caprice core.

 

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He probably did the same thing I had to: remove those drives. I only had two hard drives and two optical drives so everything I needed fit in the upper bays.